Consultant IT Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 25 19 20
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 43 55 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 5.355% 5.000% 5.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.703% 5.314% 5.327%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 32
Average daily rate £425 £425 £468
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £337 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £508 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £401
% change year-on-year
- +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.71%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 754 1035 1239
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 93.90% 94.09% 94.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 515 611
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £244 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 35
Average hourly rate £15.50 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.60% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.70 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Consultant
Scotland

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Consultant across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Consultant across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Edinburgh Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Consultant across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Consultant in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Consultant in their job title.

1 30 (34.09%) Oracle
2 20 (22.73%) Finance
3 18 (20.45%) SQL
4 16 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (15.91%) Banking
6 13 (14.77%) UNIX
7 12 (13.64%) Migration
8 11 (12.50%) Windows
8 11 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
9 9 (10.23%) Linux
10 8 (9.091%) Project Management
10 8 (9.091%) XML
10 8 (9.091%) PL/SQL
11 7 (7.955%) .NET
11 7 (7.955%) MySQL
11 7 (7.955%) IBM
11 7 (7.955%) EMC
11 7 (7.955%) Management Information System
11 7 (7.955%) Oracle HRMS
12 6 (6.818%) Oracle Applications
12 6 (6.818%) Oracle Payroll
12 6 (6.818%) Service Delivery
12 6 (6.818%) SAN
12 6 (6.818%) HPUX
13 5 (5.682%) CSS
13 5 (5.682%) AIX
13 5 (5.682%) HTML
13 5 (5.682%) JavaScript
13 5 (5.682%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (5.682%) Oracle Discoverer

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Consultant in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (9.091%) XML
2 7 (7.955%) .NET
3 5 (5.682%) CSS
3 5 (5.682%) jQuery
3 5 (5.682%) HTML
4 4 (4.545%) XSL
5 3 (3.409%) Web Services
5 3 (3.409%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.136%) JSON
6 1 (1.136%) Middleware
6 1 (1.136%) Ajax
6 1 (1.136%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (1.136%) ISPF
6 1 (1.136%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.136%) HTML5
6 1 (1.136%) Highcharts JS
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.545%) Drupal
2 3 (3.409%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.273%) MS Exchange
3 2 (2.273%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.136%) SugarCRM
4 1 (1.136%) Lync
4 1 (1.136%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (1.136%) SAS
4 1 (1.136%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.136%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.136%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.136%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.136%) Gephi
Business Applications
1 16 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
3 7 (7.955%) Oracle HRMS
4 6 (6.818%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (6.818%) Oracle Payroll
5 4 (4.545%) Google Analytics
5 4 (4.545%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (4.545%) WebTrends
6 1 (1.136%) PeopleSoft HRMS
6 1 (1.136%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.818%) SAN
2 5 (5.682%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.682%) Firewall
3 3 (3.409%) SSL
4 2 (2.273%) LDAP
4 2 (2.273%) DNS
4 2 (2.273%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.136%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.136%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.136%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.955%) MySQL
2 5 (5.682%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.682%) Oracle Discoverer
3 4 (4.545%) Essbase
3 4 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (4.545%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.545%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (3.409%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (3.409%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (3.409%) DB2
4 3 (3.409%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.273%) SQLPlus
5 2 (2.273%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.273%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 2 (2.273%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.136%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.136%) Base SAS
6 1 (1.136%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (1.136%) PowerCenter
6 1 (1.136%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.409%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.273%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.136%) ERwin
3 1 (1.136%) Selenium
3 1 (1.136%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.136%) Hudson
General
1 20 (22.73%) Finance
2 14 (15.91%) Banking
3 5 (5.682%) Marketing
4 4 (4.545%) Retail
5 3 (3.409%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.409%) Front Office
6 1 (1.136%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.136%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.136%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.136%) Corporate Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.955%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.545%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.273%) Symmetrix DMX
3 2 (2.273%) CLARiiON
3 2 (2.273%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.136%) Data Conversion
4 1 (1.136%) DataPower
4 1 (1.136%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.136%) Replication
4 1 (1.136%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.136%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.136%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.77%) UNIX
2 11 (12.50%) Windows
3 9 (10.23%) Linux
4 6 (6.818%) HPUX
5 5 (5.682%) AIX
6 4 (4.545%) Solaris
7 2 (2.273%) zOS
7 2 (2.273%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.136%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.136%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.136%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (13.64%) Migration
2 8 (9.091%) Project Management
3 6 (6.818%) Service Delivery
4 5 (5.682%) Service Management
4 5 (5.682%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (5.682%) Kimball Methodology
5 4 (4.545%) Analytics
5 4 (4.545%) Investment Management
5 4 (4.545%) ITIL
5 4 (4.545%) ERP
5 4 (4.545%) DRM
5 4 (4.545%) Business Analysis
5 4 (4.545%) Problem Management
5 4 (4.545%) Risk Analysis
6 3 (3.409%) Workflow
6 3 (3.409%) Asset Management
6 3 (3.409%) Data Analysis
6 3 (3.409%) Configuration Management
6 3 (3.409%) SOA
6 3 (3.409%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.45%) SQL
2 8 (9.091%) PL/SQL
3 5 (5.682%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.545%) PHP
5 3 (3.409%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.273%) XPath
6 2 (2.273%) C#
6 2 (2.273%) XQuery
7 1 (1.136%) REXX
7 1 (1.136%) VBA
7 1 (1.136%) Java
7 1 (1.136%) JCL
7 1 (1.136%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (4.545%) Degree
2 1 (1.136%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.136%) MCSE
2 1 (1.136%) ISEB
2 1 (1.136%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.136%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.136%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.273%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.136%) QA
2 1 (1.136%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.136%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.545%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.545%) Oracle RMAN
1 4 (4.545%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (2.273%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.136%) SRDF
3 1 (1.136%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 1 (1.136%) vSphere
3 1 (1.136%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.136%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (4.545%) Data Guard
2 2 (2.273%) NetBackup
2 2 (2.273%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (2.273%) Oracle Statspack
3 1 (1.136%) Legato
3 1 (1.136%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.136%) PureDisk
3 1 (1.136%) Splunk
3 1 (1.136%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 30 (34.09%) Oracle
2 7 (7.955%) IBM
2 7 (7.955%) EMC
3 4 (4.545%) Hyperion
3 4 (4.545%) Google
4 3 (3.409%) Charles River
4 3 (3.409%) VMware
4 3 (3.409%) CheckPoint
4 3 (3.409%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.409%) Business Objects
5 2 (2.273%) SAP
5 2 (2.273%) HP
5 2 (2.273%) Cisco
5 2 (2.273%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.273%) Informatica
5 2 (2.273%) Nokia
5 2 (2.273%) Brocade
6 1 (1.136%) DataFlux
6 1 (1.136%) IronPort
6 1 (1.136%) Pega
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